By 1928, so many people were in debt because of the newly introduced credit deal. So people stopped buying because they couldn't afford to. Electricity was a new fangled concept that worked its way into people's homes. Carl Marx and Friedrich Engels came up with the theory of communism. They figured that since a very small percentage of our population controls the money while everyone else is suffering poverty. They thought that if the poor would rise up, they could make everything equal for everybody. Russia becomes communist, ruled by Vladimir Lenin. Americans were afraid of the communists, and that the immigrants coming over were going to bring communism with them.
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